Subject: Situations (Page 52)

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

My wife made me join a bridge club… I jump off next Tuesday.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets.

American playwright, television writer & author

My wife, she’s another one. Last night our house caught fire and I heard her tell the kids, “Shhh, be quiet; you’ll wake your father.”

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Sometimes I'm so bored at a party, I'll slip myself a roofie.

comedian & author

I was born gay, but eight months of breast feeding wiped that right out.

(1962 – ) American stand-up comedian, writer, actor & radio host

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

I’m in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn’t even know I exist – and worse… she can prove it.

(1974 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

[Coedness] is like a radical agenda forced on college students.

(1969 – ) U.S. Representative (Delaware)

I tried to throw a yo-yo away; it was impossible.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?

(1919 – 1991) American comedian & actor

If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.

Never order a drink where you get to keep the glass.

novelist, screenwriter & businessman

My girlfriend said to me in bed last night' 'you're a pervert;’ I said, 'that's a big word for a girl of nine.’

(1956 – ) American comedian

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

(1858 – 1932) American physicist, physician & humorist

Isn’t it strange – when you’re single, all you see is couple and when you’re part of a couple, all you see are hookers.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

A hard man is good to find.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this – man's being unable to sit still in a room.

(1623 – 1662) French mathematician & physicist

I used to be a proofreader for a sky writing company.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Family reunions is that time when you come face to face with your family tree, and you realize some branches need to be cut.

American comedian

I was planning on my future as a homeless person… I had a really good spot picked out.

(1947 – ) American comedian, writer, actor & television producer